Director, DevOps (Senior Software Architect)

About the Position

Location: Remote, could be business trips

Company: Based in Singapore, designs, builds and operates payment infrastructures, applications and services that are focused on facilitating real-time electronic payments for emerging economies. Company clients and partners include large-cap tech companies, financial institutions, public sector agencies and intergovernmental organizations.

We are seeking a Director, DevOps (Senior Software Architect) to lead our technical strategies and ensure optimal performance.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the CTO in setting and driving the technical development strategies aligning with organizational vision.
• Develop actionable technology strategies and plans that ensure alignment with short-term and long-term Company objectives.
• Drive and manage the strategy of setup and management of development, staging, demo, and production environments.
• Assist CTO in preparing budget for technical issues including IT operational & team development.
• Establish Data security, Governance, and access mechanisms across the organization.
• Ensure effective recruiting, onboarding, professional development, performance management, and retention of the team.
• Acting as technical lead in lieu of CTO to ensure development of architect and continue consultation on different projects.
• Responsible for working with business team to establish and optimize SLAs for applications’ upper-level performance.
• Assist the technical team to apply new age technology solutions as per business requests.
• Initiate and implement guidelines to provide quick, reliable, and easy to interpret dashboard reports.
• Forecast business need based on national as well as global market analysis in terms of technical inclusion and prepare team accordingly.
• Develop new features and maintain existing applications developed on ASP.NET, Web API, SQL and others.
• Establish state of art IT operations and Site Reliability functions to keep lights on.
• Identify issues and provide solutions with root cause and impact analysis using tools such as error log files, tables, and windows event viewer.
• Build applications using latest paradigms such as microservices, cloud native architecture.
• Review, design, develop and refactor code in functions, stored procedures and tables using SQL server.
• Automate Custom Integration builds and deployments across multiple environments (Dev, QA, UAT, etc).
• Work on analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangible variance factors.
• Implement and managing monitoring solutions to proactively track potential incidents.
• Troubleshoot, conduct root cause analysis, and resolve technical issues.
• Handle escalation management of technical issues.
• Champion new age ways of working for engineering teams
• Any other relevant tasks assigned by the Management.

Requirements

• Preferred Qualifications:

  • Evaluate, identify and develop software solutions.
  • Lead software development projects.
  • Document and record every aspect of an application or software.
  • Train and oversee the activities of the members of the development team.
  • Plan, track, and schedule software deliverables.
  • Locate and direct solutions for critical challenges involving software and hardware interface.
  • Look for problems within software systems and resolve the issues.

• Minimum Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science or relevant field.
  • Extensive experience in software development and project management.
  • Solid understanding of a variety of programming tools and development platforms.
  • Excellent organizational and leadership abilities.
  • Highly analytical mindset, with an ability to see both the big picture and the details.
  • Broad understanding of coding and programming languages.
  • Experience with database design and data modeling.
  • Extensive knowledge of the software development process and corresponding technologies.
  • Excellent understanding of design patterns and architectural styles.
  • Proficient knowledge of the operation and development designs of agile software.
  • Expertise with content management systems.
  • Good understanding of enterprise service bus (ESB) platforms, including BizTalk and MuleSoft.
  • Strong soft skills, including attention to detail, problem-solving and communication skills.

Technical Requirements

• Core Skills:
  • Java (Sprint Boot),.NET Core.
  • Familiarity with ReactJs/Vue/Angular.
  • RESTApi
  • SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL
  • Splunk, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Elastic Search.
  • Docker, Kubernetes.
  • CI/CD tools like – Azure DevOps, Jenkins.

We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Remote work options
• Professional development budget

About the Company

Based in Singapore, we design, build and operate payment infrastructures, applications and services that are focused on facilitating real-time electronic payments for emerging economies. Our clients and partners include large-cap tech companies, financial institutions, public sector agencies and intergovernmental organizations.